Action alliance against housing shortage and city destruction, circular 126
Rally against vacancy on February 25 at 11 am, Glasstraße 6.
The Left in the Ehrenfeld district council on 07 May 2018:
“In the Ehrenfeld district alone, the houses Glasstraße 6, Hansemannstraße 49 and Senefelderstraße 74 have already been empty for years. This must be changed!
Resolution:
The administration is instructed to,
(1) to convert vacancies that existed before the housing protection statute came into force into residential use by means of building bids in accordance with § 176 of the German Building Code (BauGB)
(2) to issue building bans for the vacancies at Glasstraße 6, Hansemannstraße 49 and Senefelderstraße 74
(3) to expropriate owners who do not comply with their obligations despite building bans, in accordance with § 85 BauGB.”
https://ratsinformation.stadt-koeln.de/getfile.asp?id=659315&type=do
Since then, nothing has happened. The house at Glasstraße 6 stands empty and rots away. The action alliance against housing shortage and city destruction demands the expropriation of the community of heirs and accommodation of homeless persons in the empty dwellings.
Vacancy despite housing shortage
The roof over the head as speculation object
https://wdrmedien-a.akamaihd.net/medp/podcast/weltweit/fsk0/237/2379710/dok5dasfeature_2021-03-07_leerstandtrotzwohnungsnot_wdr5.mp3
Housing First – first a dwelling
The right to a home
Finland has turned the approach to homelessness around: new housing is the beginning, not the end, of reintegration. A model?
https://taz.de/Housing-first-in-Finnland/!5914243&s=Jasmin+Kalarickal/
The Finnish approach to homelessness
On the first delegation trip of the Ministry of Construction, Minister Geywitz is looking for solutions to one of the most pressing problems in Germany: homelessness. In Finland, there has long been a consensus that housing is a fundamental right.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/finnland-obdachlosigkeit-geywitz-101.html
Broadcasts, reports, news
Deaths of homeless people: Invisible corpses
Homeless people are victims of deadly violence again and again. A taz research reconstructs the confirmed deaths of 2022.
https://taz.de/Todesfaelle-von-wohnungslosen-Menschen/!5912825&s=Carolina+Schwarz/
Gisa März has been in custody for over 100 days. Because she was caught fare evasion
https://www.stern.de/gesellschaft/strafe-fuers-schwarzfahren–gisa-maerz-sitzt-seit-ueber-100-tagen-in-haft-33195376.html
“East German cities move into the focus of speculators”.
Displacement and de-renting in Halle: initiative calls for rent fight demo. A conversation with Amira Klote and Lukas Hulfeld
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/445169.mietenwahnsinn-ostdeutsche-st%C3%A4dte-r%C3%BCcken-in-den-fokus-von-spekulanten.html
Dates
25.02.2023, 11 o’clock demonstration against vacancy, Glasstr.6
02.03.2023, 15:30 o’clock social committee
04.02.2023, 11 o’clock, rally against vacancy
11.03.2023, 11 o’clock, Rally against vacancy
18.03.2023, 11 a.m., Rally against vacancy
03/23/2023, 3:30 p.m., Council
03/25/2023 Housing Action Day
For a city without homelessness
For a city without evictions
For a city without drug deaths
For a city without violence against women and children
For a city without deportations
For a city without poverty
February 25, 2023
Klaus Jünschke and Rainer Kippe
https://wohnungsnot.koeln
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